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Some waffle and links to historical bits and bobs;

Castlemaine Gaol is up for sale, apparently, such a shame when it could have been used for any number of uses.

Massive train crash in 1969 known as the Southern Aurora Rail Disaster saw one man hailed a hero - the conductor Alan Hyatt who has passed away this week.

Arrrr, there be gold in them thar...streets.
Yes, more and more mine shafts...sorry, 'sinkholes' ...are opening up all over joint.
Just think of how many might be revealed when the Spring rains start...!

Big double train wooot wooooooooot!
Ararat Railway Museum has hit the 2010 ABC Radio National Regional Museums Award.

Happy Birthday Batmania!!!!

Sorry, a bit light on for historical waffle today, shall be doing a homeschool excursion with Feral Beastie at several of the Melbourne Day events.
Now, for those of you who don't know Melbourne turns 175 years old.
Because, apparently, it didn't exist until the white fella clapped eyes on it.
Ahuh.
So....let's be honest - we'll be there for the free food and the chance to topple overboard check out the tall ship Enterprize.
Check out the list of events and attractions HERE.
For more info on the local Indigenous Peoples who make up the Kulin Nation read HERE.
Yes, there will be photos and I may just get around to uploading the hubby's (few and far between) pics from Hurstbridge Wattle Festival, too.
And...OMG the op shop was closed this year!!!
What's with that?!
It's always open and bustling with customers on Festival day, it's never closed?!!
I'll get to the bottom of this humongous mystery....!
Melbourne was almost named Batmania, after one of the founders, John Batman.
Sadly, we were deprived of the opportunity of being known to the whole world as Batmaniacs when Those Who Had More Power Than Taste chose a spot of brown-nosing Lord Melbourne, instead.

When I kick the boys out I really let my hair down....or How I Lost My Fun Factor

Lordy, I've had a lovely few hours and I didn't go anywhere!
Looking after Dad is exhausting sometimes, more mentally than physically (on top of battling with a stressed out Aspie), but lately we've been battling to get him to eat properly only to have him refuse, call us names and out-right lie about his food.
Even his GP has given him a talking to, not that it did much *sigh*.
It's become this big bone of contention in the house and I just could not deal with his abuse on my own again today so at the last minute I got hubby to take Dad as well as Feral Beast kidlet off to the Hurstbridge Wattle Festival.
And I have had time to myself in the house for more than an hour for the first time in I-don't-know-how-long!
Yippie!!!!
I've deboned last night's roast chook and turned it into casserole with the vegies, boiled up the chook carcass for stock, scrubbed the baking dishes, washed (by hand) 3 loads of laundry and hung most of it out, mopped the floors and nommed my way through a block of chocolate.
Now, all good things must come to an end and, apparently, they're on their way home.
Drats.
I haven't had time to lay out the man and bear traps finish the laundry, yet.

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Teaching us how to correctly treat our politicians...?
1860 Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne, was stoned and attacked by a mob of ever-so-slightly irate citizens over a controversial land bill involving squatters.
Squatters were always such controversial creatures...

Victorian Parliament seen here in 1901 with nary a scratch on her to show the 1860 riot.
Image and further info from Picture Australia
1941 Dominion Observatory Time became the official time for Canada at the 3rd stroke of 1pm.
Tick, tock!

1943 A lady who let the purple flag peep out from time to time, Eleanor Roosevelt popped into the Shaky Isles for a knees up and a plate of scones.


The feral beastie had a marvellous time at his football dinner last night, celebrating their 2010 Premiership win (WOOT!!!) while getting trophies, tucking into great food, having fun and generally marking another milestone in life.

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Stuff wot 'appened on this 'ere day, me ol' china plate

1907 Frederick Peters was a nice chap (at least his 4 wives thought so!).
So nice, in fact, he trotted across the globe to Sydney and established Peters American Delicacy Co Ltd.
To make ice cream.
Yes, good old Peters Ice cream was birthed.

Miss Bishop was usually found at 117 Bathurst St, Sydney.
She may have been on nodding terms with Frederick Peters.
Image courtesy of Timespanner.
1911 Joseph Pawelka busted out of gaol for the last time.
1942 German U boat sank two ships off the coast of Newfoundland.



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Pimp ma wheelchair, baby!

1835 Bust out the dancing slippers, Hortense, we're trespassers!
Gov Richard Bourke (who could be a right Burk when his corset was in a twist) declared that Batman's Treaty with the Wurundjeri Elders was invalid and *gasp* all the settlers in Port Phillip were trespassers.
Onya Dick.
1938/39* The Barnett Avenue Elderly Person's Housing was officially opened, the first purpose-built complex for pensioners provided by a govt body in NZ .
Further details HERE.
*I have both 1938 and 1939 given. Toss a coin!
1957 Rick Hansen, wheelchair athlete, born on this day.
Read more about him and his Man in Motion World Tour, to raise money for spinal cord research, HERE.

Speaking of wheelchairs can you see what the lovely people at Ol' Skool 79 did for us when they fitted a new inner tube to Dad's wheelchair tyre?

Maybe we'll do a close up for you to see it properly....

They put little bullet cap covers on for a laugh to pimp the chair lol.
And, yes, we seriously discussed going with BMX wheels for off-roading in the wheelchair.

And yet more controversy in the Ballarat area over mine shafts appearing after all this rain with some at the Council claiming them as sinkholes.
Ahuh.
In a former heavily mined area.
If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck...

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Go drool...

Vanilla Slices at the Dunolly Bakery.

Did you know that......

Seriously!
I had No.Idea!
Get me some of that there Koko!!!

I'm thinking that you get it from the

A-huh.
Along with your


and all your other


No need to feel shy because


They're so friendly, in fact, their claim is


And they can't be too bad if they sell both

and

and they'll even have

to get your shoes clean again.

August 24 happened, believe it or not, then there's the photos...

I'm about halfway through the upload of photos to blind your retinas share with you but they'll be posted over on the Dunolly blog - which you can follow the link in the tabs up there ^ .
Had a ball, even though it was exhausting a little tiring having Dad with us, but I managed to not trip over too many things, the feral kidlet managed to guide the wheelchair I was pushing away from possible roads, rioting miners and runaway horses (pick the one that didn't materialise) and we got back home in one piece.
Except we I busted the inner tube on one of the wheelchair tyres.
That was fun, pushing it around with a flat - but only difficult on the (few and far between) footpaths - flat tyres are GREAT in the muddy, water-logged ground!
Try it and see!
No.
Perhaps don't.
1878 Wellington was blessed with a steam tram service.
1934 Mildura was proclaimed A City!!!!
1965 A limited service of trains tootling through the Montreal Metro subway began.

Oh, remember this story about the mine shafts opening up in Bendigo?
Another opened up in Ballarat, story HERE.
There is land subsiding all over the shop with this lovely soaking rain filling up the cracks in the drought-drained earth then gravity works its magic fingers and voila - you have a hole with no donut middle to put back.
Don't be off walking on your lonesome and stick to the paths!

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Well, helloooooooooo again!

I haz returned.
I will get around to writing up stuffs and posting pretty pics.
Soon.
Now, I'll just try to visit all of your blogs.

Goodness, isn't technology great ?! That's rhetorical, you don't have to cringe, y'know :P

Yes.
Still at it, I see.
You know you'll go blind if you keep that up.

1884 The Calgary and District Agricultural Show was established to promote local crops and to exhibit the produce of the region.
1910 Ilam Homestead, on the site of the current staff club, was destroyed by fire.
Fabulous photos HERE, 8th photo down.
1985 Agent Orange Royal Commission finds no link *cough carp* between chemical defoliants *cough cough* sprayed in Vietnam *cough bulltish cough* and the health problems of veterans.

Hopefully I haven't been tossed from the train and am back in Melbourne to continue this delightful interlude with you tomorrow.

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I'm still watching you. Yeah, creepy, hey?

Helloooooooooo!
I'm still popping up ner ner ner ner ner.
1806 With food almost gone Hobart prisoners wereallowed to hunt kangaroos.
1862 Billy Barker discovered gold in the creeks running into the Quesnel River, sparking a huge gold rush to the Cariboo.
2006 Tuheitia Paki, Dame Te Atairangikaahu was selected as the new Maori King.
So.
Having a good time?
Got plans for the weekend?

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Peek a boo! I seeeee you !

I am not here.
No, seriously.
I've gone bush.
Hit the frog 'n' toad (rhyming slang for road).
Shot through like a Bondi tram.
I'm in my wee oasis in Central Victoria, Dunolly.
I've left you some scheduled bits to keep you out of mischief, see that you use them wisely *snort*.
1980 A crowd of 1,400 rioted in Toronto when Alice Cooper cancelled his concert due to illness.
1978 A Drop The Charges Motorcade drove from Glebe to Parramatta to protest the charges against those who took part in the first Sydney Mardi Gras in June.
1984 The Christchurch City Council approves the banning of open fires.

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Only 1 more sleep weeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Well, there'll be at least one more night of bathing by moonlight in this neck of woods as the shower is delayed a little more.
The poor possum mafia will just have to cope with this stupid pink monkey doing laps in the tub whilst the furbaby stands guard *snort*.

1809 John Molson launched his wooden paddle steamship, PS Accommodation, upon the waves of the St Lawrence River, the first Canadian steamship built entirely in North America.
1840 Tailors in Sydney and carpenters in Melbourne went on strike for higher wages.
The impertinence of the cheeky devils! 
If living below the poverty line was good enough for their forebears, surely it's good enough for them? *that's my tongue in my cheek*
1944 Pilot Officer James Stellin sacrificed his own life to save 370 in a French village.
Full details HERE.

• This wee home is quite the number; how abouts we take up a collection and share this gorgeous place....?
• Gotta feel for this family with the underwhelming support they've received..
• Wave ta ta to the famed Eureka flag as it sails out of its traditional home of Ballarat to the City of Churches, Adelaide, for a bit of a facelift.

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I've seen the future and we are saved!

Was at the State Library of Victoria, that grand old dame of a building that graciously forgives the foibles of all the young whipper-snapper architects who think they know better and attempt to achieve the greatness of the State Library only to fail miserably.
Anyways....was in there trawling through the old newspapers on microfilm with the feral kidlet - he gets to learn how to do things old school as part of his homeschooling, yes, even down to note taking with a *gasp* pencil and paper notebook.
He wanted to try out the wi-fi doo-hickey with his laptop but I made him go old school (mainly cos I know who'd end up carrying the damn thing and I wasn't sure if lappys can be used in the microfilm room).
So, had to go to the loos and There.It.Was.
My lost faith in humanity.
Fully restored.
After reading the old school-type CLEVER, INTELLECTUAL, HUMOUROUS, WITTY graffiti on the back of the toilet door, I have hope for our future once more.

"When you get to the other side and realise there REALLY IS a BOB, then you'll know I was right. But it'll be too late for you then. You'll be BOB-LESS. Like you are now."

"Jesus saved humanity once." (In blue ink)
"He's got nothing on The Doctor." (In different hand in red ink with mini TARDIS drawn beside it).

Short and brief, like Rabbit's undies

Nope, no history posts for today.
But on the bright side there was no backyard bathing, either, and thus no wildlife was harmed in the closing of the day!

Love is...humouring your partner's weirder ideas

Tired.
But had a grand soak in the tub.
In the backyard, in the pitch dark.
Yes, it was cold, no it had stopped raining.
But it was freakin' brilliant under the cooling-rather-quickly-hot water looking at the moon through the trees.
Hubby was a tad stingy with the buckets tonight.
But it was still fun.
And he stood guard with the trusty torch and towel.
Ya never know about the feral possum mafia around this place...!

I see the moon, the moon sees me, shining through the apple tree....

Bright spark I aint

Well, aren't I right on the ball?
*rolls eyes at self*
The new comments tab in the dashboard section showed a bajillion comments on my other blogs from a few centuries ago that I missed; apologies for not having replied.
Right now I'm dreaming of a soak in the tub in the garden tomorrow evening, as compiling the Dunolly chronology is such hard work *snort*.

1973 French sailors boarded and seized the Canadian yacht Greenpeace II as it had entered the exclusion zone while protesting French nuclear tests.
1983 Austen Tayshus hit the top of the charts for 8 weeks with Australiana.
2006 Maori Queen Dame Te Atairangikaahu passed away.

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Splish splash I was takin' a bath

Well, I gave in.
Sponge baths are all very well but pullll-eeeeeze!
If we can't shower until sometimes next week (eeeeek) I was determined to have a soak in the old bath (yes, we saved it to soak away the heat of the coming Summer).
Hubby and I set it up on bricks then he wrestled the bucket of hot water out about 5 times before I leapt into it.
It.Was.Freaking.Bloody.Wonderful.
Lazing back in the bath, under the plum tree, with the wild birds gathering in the tree tops to gawk at the stupid pink monkey floating in the uber-large birdbath while the chooks brook-brook-brooooooked loudly in disapproval at the side and gazing at the grey clouds up above was simply splendid.
Yes, you did need to know this.
Yes, we are taking bookings for nightly nature baths but, no, fishing and snorkeling will not be allowed.

1863 The Kiwi Govt offered freebie land grants to Aussie volunteers to entice them to fight in the 2nd Taranaki War.
1980 A tornado hit near London, Ontario, ripping roofs from buildings, knocking down power lines and scattering trees willy-nilly.

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Friday August 13...the day the Earth stood not-quite-still-enough to play Statues

Have over-indulged in Granny Smiths and Pakham pears today, in celebration for having voted early.....I fear more than just the dog may be dutch ovened in return tonight!
Might be wise if we open a window.
Just in case.

1905 During the Russo-Japanese War Japan snatched the Canadian ship Antiope as a carrier of contraband.
1974 Kurashiki, Japan, became the sister city to Christchurch.
2005 Australian Coalition for Equality (ACE) was launched one year to the day after the Federal Parliament tinkered with the Marriage Act to make it only for opposite sex couples.
It's been half time and we've changed sides but the scrum isn't looking much better.*rolls eyes*
Maybe we should indulge in a few too many Granny Smiths and pop up to Canberra...?

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August 12 stuff happened!

Well, we didn't get the Storm of Impending Doom that they promised... but the dog dutch ovened us all night under the doona.
Which was far, far, far worse.
Cos she'd been eating tinned food again.
Erk.

Ok, exciting history stuffs on this day consisted of...
1829 The site of Perth being chosen as X marks the spot.
You can download the history of Perth HERE.
1842 Melbourne was incorporated as a city.
You can read the history of Melbourne HERE.
1849 Surveyor Edward Jollie parked his posterior in Canterbury.
You can ogle a portrait of the handsome chap HERE.
1892 The first electric street cars, converted from horse-drawn vehicles, began burbling about Toronto along the Church route for the Toronto Railway Company.
You may drool over a replica and museum photos HERE.

Now, remember...



Nice to see the Silver Kiwi fern included on the cover.

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August 11 It's raining again, oh no, my bath's at an end...

It's bucketing down outside, we have a great gaping hole in the bathroom floor and we're on a flood watch here in Melbourne (and the rest of the whole state, too, it seems).
Seriously, I promise we turned the water off at the mains...!
Guess who's gonna do a Birdman Rally attempt and launch the old cast iron bath down the street if the water laps the gaping hole....?

1877 The Canterbury Cricket Council was established and Trevor still bowled underarm.
1892 Scottish writer, poet Christopher Grieve aka Hugh MacDiarmid was pupped.
1921 Essendon Airport opened without a bang but the whimpering whining came later when people suddenly woke up one day to realise they'd apparently (completely unnoticed before then) sprouted an airfield in the vegie patch....
1941 To conserve silk for wartime supplies for parachutes the Canadian Govt banned the use of silk.

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The constant battle of the loo roll August 10

You know that ad with the golden Labrador pup that brings the new roll of toilet paper after taking the empty one out?
Can someone send that dog over here to train this mob of men?!

1857 Melbourne was lit by gas.
Whoa! There was a reason castor oil was shovelled down kids gullets.
1932 The statue of Captain James Cook was unveiled in Victoria Square.
1966 A meteor, in broad daylight, merrily skipped its way across the sky from Utah to Canada and then tootled along its trajectory right back out of the Earth's atmosphere again.
1993 Hitting 6.8 on the Richter Scale a rumble in the earth hit Secretary Island with the earth moving for them in Sydney, Oz, too.

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New blog, new-ish pearlers but no new bath....yet

Sadly, no rippage has yet taken place.
The toothy-pegs were over-hauled with more attention paid to them than the inches contained within Scarlet O'Hara's whalebone corset.
Tartar has been reigning unopposed; that would be the dental tartar not the Crimean Tatar and certainly don't confuse it with the Volga Tatars!
There was a minor almost completely bloodless coup in the dental tartar camp with an overthrow of the ruling leader and a benign happy state of self-rule is once more in state.
The bathroom rippage will begin tomorrow, after an apologetic phone call with an "oopsie' explanation.

The new blog, Dunolly & District, was launched last night without fanfare; there are still a few holes in my chronology so expect several upcoming dates to be a little on the thin side and admire the pictures posted to distract you from that sad fact.
I would cheerfully move permanently to Dunolly just for the peace it brings my feral kidlet but without a car it would leave us at the mercy of the whims of the sporadic bus service/s in an isolated town.

1757 Scottish engineer Thomas Telford was pupped.
1840 Britain allowed Canada to sell off public land formerly set aside for the church and gave the proceeds to the Churches of England and Scotland.
1870 The Melbourne Town Hall was officially opened.
1930 George Nepia played his final All Blacks test.
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August 8 on this day and things that go RIIIIIP !

Excitingly, boys and girls, I'm close to launching (yet another) history blog.
Don't fret, there will be no note taking or exams on this one.
And, having dissed those ads for sensitive teeth the other day, the dental gods got miffed and I shall be opening wide for my dentist at the delightful time of 9am in the morning.
Right after they begin the bathroom rippage of turning a bath into a walk-in shower at 8am.
Oh, yeah, we're a regular bunch of party animals.

1758 Andrew Rollo snatched Prince Edward Island from the French, kicked the 3,500 residents back to France then threw together Fort Amherst.
This, Toto, did not inspire Deborah Harry's hit French Kissing in the USA.
1963 The Great Train Robbery took place with the robbers making off with millions.
1984 Friday night and Saturday afternoon shopping was allowed in NSW.
Ooo, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto!
1986 The Homosexual Law Reform Act came into effect in NZ.
Ooo, Dorothy, the sky didn't fall in, amazing!

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Disabilty Hate Crimes

Interesting report on the AM news program on 774 - disability hate crime; how some bloke (professor? doctor? Can't find a link on the ABC site) from USA has called for formal recognition of disability hate crime here in Oz.
He slated the dropkicks from Werribee who raped a developmentally delayed girl, set her hair on fire, urinated on her and a couple with cerebral palsy in Brisbane being harassed by their neighbours as classic examples of disability hate crime but as it's termed 'abuse' here in Oz it attracts a lesser punishment.
I have a white stick and poor vision but I have been told of people deliberately walking out of their path of direction to hip and shoulder me, I've had others barge in front of me then deliberately stop so I either run into them or have to walk around.
Similar to what happened to Rhubarb recently.
If I walk into them they get the pleasure of an excuse to scream abuse.
If I walk around them they still get the pleasure of having inconvenienced someone with a disability.
Hubby, son, daughter and friends couldn't, wouldn't believe people could behave like this until they all saw it for themselves - if they hold my arm it doesn't happen but if the public think a chick with a white stick is out on her own then she's fair game to push, shove, knock over, run over with a pram,etc.
Hubby was moved the other week to have a go at a big burly bloke who'd crossed from one side of the footpath to the other just to flatten me into a shop wall.
Thankfully hubby was just as big and burly and the gutless mongrel apologised but only after he complained that I shouldn't be walking in the shopping area.
Yeah, blame the victim, fucktard.
There are a several shops in Chadstone that are inaccessible to anyone with a wheelchair - when I was able to push Dad in his chair we were stopped from visiting many of them.
Isn't that against the law, a little something called discrimination?
There's only 1 lift in Chaddy, that I know of, to access upper floors with a wheelchair and I had to ask a shop assistant if one existed so poor is the signage.
And what kind of impression of the disabled do you think that gives to shoppers, the public and those who work there?
Once these dipshytes who perform these hate crimes take a look at what is motivating their behaviour - which they won't cos they never own up to their responsibility in these events - they would see that they are setting up scenarios where they can vent their anger at those they perceive to be lower in the social hierarchy.
Just as they see that they themselves have been poorly treated by someone else against whom they think they have no ability to stand up for themselves.
So they perpetuate the vicious cycle by picking on someone they think is unable to fight back, to restore their feeling of superiority.
Really mature and brave; massage a fragile ego by attacking the disabled.
I think the wrong people are labelled 'disabled' in these cases.

Frankston homeschool excursion and I go medieval on a toe-rag's lazy arse

Gallivanted off to Frankston as our homeschool excursion destination today.
Why Frankston?
No flippin' idea, ask the feral geek kid.
His choice, his research into the history, places and things to do/see, he looked up the op shops ( then relied on the GPS to find the streets without realising the GPS was flat, that'll teach him to listen to his mother and print a map, pfft ) and he enjoyed it.
Apparently.
I found it...disappointing.
One big massive sprawl of shops/arcades/malls you could find in any suburb, except there's a fab beach several streets over if you bother to look for it.
Very little remaining to show Frankston had an individual style or identity.
Maybe I'm wrong; please, tell me where we can find old-school Frankston and I'll happily take a bajillion photos and praise its little cotton socks.


He Who No Longer Murders Towels.

Came home to find yet another toe-rag parked across the driveway but what made this particular dipshyte a toe-rag was that he argued that he had the right to park wherever he wanted, that the council owned my driveway and he could do as he pleased.
He soon shifted his fat arse when I called the police who, strangely enough, did NOT agree with the arsewipe or his dickhead mate who was double parked in the centre of the road, and for some reason neither of the morons hung around to see the divvy van cruise the length of the street.
HA!


For Debby and her goanna fetish.

August 5 on this day in history with graphic tales of bloodshed of the linen

We have a cat who impersonates fluffy floor covers.
He insists on sleeping in the bathroom.
We don't have an issue with that.
We do have an issue with the fact he stretches up on his tippy toes on his hind legs, stretches up his itty bitty claws on his front legs til he's full length and snicks his claws into the edge of a towel hanging on the towel rail and then drags it down onto the floor.
To sleep on.
Yes, we've tried giving him scrappy old towels... *imperious sniff, tail in the air* no thank you.
Loudly squeaking towel rail signals the draggage of good human towels each evening, like he's in touch with his big cat heritage and is bringing down an antelope on the Serengeti.
So, I had the idea of giving him the scrap piece of red sheepskin I found in my mothers stuff.
Hang it on the towel rail.
Sit in the kitchen and wait......
....til we hear the rail squeaking as he drags down his latest kill, appropriately coloured, so snuggle up on all night.
Human towels are no longer on the endangered species list.

1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert proclaimed St John's in Newfoundland in the name of the Crown thereby creating the first British colony in North America.
Where Elizabeth has recently been sunning herself!
1914 Declaration of war between Britain and Germany reaches Oz with the German ship Pfalz attempting to do a runner through the Port Philip Heads when it was brought to a stop with the first allied shot fired in the war at 12 midday from Fort Nepean.
1940 Mayor of Montreal Camillien Houde was arrested by the RCMP for sedition owing to his anti-conscription views and was interred in a camp for the rest of WW2.
1988 Cartwright report condemns the treatment of those with cervical cancer in NZ.

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August 4 on this day in history with slightly used hubby going cheap

Hubby has misplaced his birth certificate.

Why the heck he had to move it from the safe place where I have Every.Single birth/death/marriage/immunisation/divorce and why-the-hell-did-I-buy-this-man-at-a-half-price-sale? certificate shelved, is beyond me.

Bloody man!

Though....I may keep him.

He does make a nice meal.

When poked.

With a broomstick...
*Edit to add - just found them, will let him sleep inside the house tonight now *snort*

1577 During a particularly nasty storm over East Anglia the Black Shuck is said to have gallivanted into the church and did nasty deeds to some of the congregation before flying off to another town and church.
And this, children, is why you shouldn't inhale.
Or eat the mushrooms.
1769 Prince Edward Island was created when the British Crown separated the island of St Jean from Nova Scotia.
And then we got Anne of Green Gables, woot!
1840 Runaway convict John Storry Baker aka Booralsha fronted up to the white settlers at Moreton Bay after having lived with Aboriginal People for 14 years.
1942 NZ PM David Lange was pupped on this day.

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August 3 on this day in history with the usual suspects of babble, blather, and a little rabble practicing for a street march in the new year

That ad about sensitive teeth, with people whining about ice cold water making toofy hurties- pulllll-eze.

Hubby asked what did people do in the old days when they sensitive teeth.

Well, boys and girls, they went to a blacksmith to have the little suckers ripped, screaming, from their noggins with a dirty pair of pliers that had probably just removed a rusty nail from a horse's dung-covered hoof...

And they lived with the water supply which was a fresh creek, gently warmed to a tepid temperature beneath the sun.

Chockers full of typhoid, cholera and other people's chamber pot fillings.

Then they died.

The end.

1460 King James II of Scotland was kicked off this mortal coil by the English when they stormed Roxburgh Castle.
Did he whinge about sore teeth? Nooooooooo, his main worry was keeping his head on his shoulders.
1891 Second oldest bank in Oz, pffft, like that was a hard gig to get?, Bank of Van Diemen's Land went belly up.
Did they give a fat rat's clacker about sensitive toofy-pegs? Not a bloody cracker, they didn't. Unless they could have flogged 'em for ivory piano keys.
1910 Canterbury Croquet Association was got together.
They'd have knocked a molar out for you with a mallet. If you asked nicely.
1914 Canadian Govt suspended all coin payments to conserve the gold supply and made bank notes legal tender.
Cos far too many people were stashing their money into gold fillings. That's the real cause of the GFC - too much gold bling on rappers. It's all their fault.
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August 2 On this day in history sunshine, lollipops and politicians, erk

Here we are again, dear reader, morning rolls around with yet another date of events and more weak wintery sun dribbling through the clouds while we shiver.
The shivering is actually from the politicians attempting to pucker up to the poor innocent babies; oh the humanity...!

1100 King of England, King William II had a slight accident when out hunting; he was shot through the chest with an arrow.
Oops.
1909 The first passenger flight in Canada was made in the Silver Dart.
1983 Paul Sharp, having some free time, became the first white person to cross the Simpson Desert alone and on foot.
1983 Anti-nuclear protests were held as the USS Texas popped into Auckland.

St Mary's Catholic Church, Dunolly.
Is Classified.

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August 1 On this day with bum nuts, fillies ready to party and clothes removed

It's been bucketing down here but a veritable heatwave at 10 degrees C while in Dunolly it is a tad cooler at 7 degrees. But they'll likely get heated up after lunch and begin peeling the layers of clothes off.

Winter sun can be such a magnetic drawcard.

Chooks are fed, eggs are found, more vegie seedlings bought, all's right with the world. 


1778 New concept began; a savings bank, opened in Hamberg in Germany.
Stop! Your mattress is perfectly fine!
1791 Matilda, the first of the Third Fleet transport ships, rocked up to Port Jackson with a shipment of 205 human party animals ready to paint the colony red.
1968 Royal Canadian Mint began replacing silver with nickle in Canada's coin except for the silver dollar.  
There goes the whole melting the coins down to make silver bullets to defeat the undead idea, pfft.
1987 The very first NZ Lotto draw was drawn.


Happy Birthday to all the horses.

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